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Policy areas (24) now being considered for national priority status

An initial sifting exercise was carried out on the c60 policy areas
enforced by local authority environmental health and trading standards
services, considering risk, impact of enforcement, applicability across the
country and a range of other factors. This was verified with a group of
professionals working in the area. As a result, 24 policy areas have been
selected as candidates for national priority status and are now being
evaluated fully.

These 24 policy areas are shown in the table below.

Policy areas and aims

Policy Areas

Aim of Policy

Air quality, including regulation of pollution from factories and
homes

Local authorities are responsible for measuring the quality of air
people breathe, for taking action with others where the quality is
below approved standards, and for regulating pollution from some
industry and from domestic premises.

Alcohol, entertainment and late night refreshment licensing

Grant licences and certificates to premises, members' clubs and
individuals selling and supplying alcohol and/or providing
regulated entertainment and / or late night refreshment; and
enforce related licensing offences and conditions attached such
licences and certificates.

Animal and public health, animal movements and identification

Ensures animal feed does not include prohibited or harmful
ingredients and is made hygenically. Provides for the control of
animal disease (including those that can be transmitted to humans),
and for the traceability of animals from farm to fork.

Approval of food manufacturing premises

Check premises where food is to be made are safe and hygienic and
issue certificate. Approval should be sought before business is
allowed to trade.

Consumer credit (advertising, illegal money lending)

Ensures traders inform customers of their obligations and rights
when taking credit, and advertise credit fairly

Contaminated land

To ensure unacceptable risk to humans and the environment from land
contamination is found and dealt with.

Provides for the welfare of animals on farm, during transport and
at market. Ensures that premises/events with animals (e.g. pet
shops, dog shows) use suitable premises with appropriate safety
controls.

Food Standards (labelling)

Ensure food sold is properly labelled

Hygiene of businesses selling, distributing and manufacturing food
and the safety and fitness of food in the premises

Ensure premises selling or making food follow hygiene regulations
and that food within the premises is safe

Imported foods

Ensure food imported is safe, hygienic and its composition is
correct

Improving health in the workplace

To reduce the incidence of ill-health and days lost arising from
work activities (in particular in relation to muscular skeletal
disorders, stress and chemicals), promote compliance with the law,
and reduce the cost and suffering to individuals, companies and
society.

Licensing of houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) for amenity
standards and management

To improve the quality of the local environment, by deterring
litter, fly-tipping, fly-posting, graffiti and dog fouling; to
require managers of land used by the public to remove litter and
abandoned vehicles; and to enable local authorities to use
enforcement powers to tackle poor environmental quality and
anti-social behaviour.

Misleading prices

Ensure traders do not mislead consumers to the price of goods,
services or accommodation

Noise nuisances; prevention and control

To deal with local complaints on noise

Notification/ prevention of infectious diseases

Prevent dangerous, contagious diseases from spreading widely

Operation of the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and its
associated enforcement powers in private sector housing

To assess and deal with unhealthy and hazardous conditions in
housing accommodation